Fortran for Programmers

Content

Fortran is used a lot in the context of HPC. For many, it has a reputation of being an old and ugly programming language. However, modern Fortran is a far cry from Fortran 77 that its detractors have in mind. Fortran 2003/2008 is a language that is well tailored towards scientific computing. This training introduces the language and its features.

Subjects:

• basics: control flow statements, data types, functions
• arrays and pointers
• user defined types/classes
• procedures
• modules
• file I/O
• command line interaction
• linear algebra with BLAS and Lapack

Target Group

This course is primarily targeted at researchers that would like/need to perform large scale computations using HPC facility - current and potential VSC-users.

Prior Knowledge

experience in another programming language

Level:  intermediate 

Course Room: opleidingslokaal A

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